Events
Synonyms for fanfare
Synonyms for fanfare: pomp and hoopla. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for fanfare
Interchangeable with fanfare in this sense
Audited under fanfare's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one fanfare carries in that sense.
- pompnoun, in the sense "showy display or celebration accompanying an event"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name fanfare as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- hooplahoopla is a noun in the sense "excited public attention or fuss surrounding an event"
The first group is filed under fanfare's own sense. The second reaches fanfare from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
showy display or celebration accompanying an event
The mayor arrived with great fanfare.
The true synonym
pomp
Same sentence, swapped: The mayor arrived with great pomp.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot fanfare is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- haste
- secrecy
- modesty
Where fanfare turns up in the game
fanfare is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where fanfare is the trap
- flashnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is instant, in the sense "a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)", with fanfare sitting one tile away.
- pandemoniumnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is bedlam, in the sense "a state of wild uproar and disorder", and fanfare is on the board beside it.
Play fanfare
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fanfare reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other events words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. fanfare carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.